Soul Troubles
Authors note:
I'd like to thank all my friends. Well the two I used in this one. So that would mean I'm thanking:
Faye and Joanne: My bestest friends!
Annie: I'd like to thank myself for coming up with this idea.
Annie is me, so I based my character on me with a few little adjustments. All other characters whose names are not mentioned above are fictional. Buffy, Xander, Willow, Oz, Cordelia, Giles, Spike, Angel and the terms 'Watcher', 'Watchers diary', 'Slayerettes' and 'Slayer' are NOT mine they belong to the mighty Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, and Warner Bros.
OOH, OOH! I really can't forget my ickle pal who beta read my story and made a few adjustments to it <Grumble, moan, pout > and pointed out my mistakes.
Beta reader: JOANNE!! Thanks Jo!
I now wanna say three things:
1. The character Natasha is a FICTIONAL character and belongs to ME so e-mail me at Sweet_Angel_Babe@Buffymail.com to ask if you can borrow her or any other of my characters.
2. This story line as far as I know is UNIQUE so if anyone has a similar one I DID NOT NICK YOUR IDEA!
3. I'm not adopted...Well at least I think I'm not. MOM IF I WERE NOW WOULD BE A GOOD TIME TO SAY SOMETHING!! <LOL>
4. I wrote the poem "Without your love", so if there are any similar I didn’t nick your idea because as far as I know there is nothing like it.
Thanks for reading my story, FEEDBACK would be APRECIATED!! <LOL>
Love
Phoenix_On_Cloud_9 a.k.a. Annie :)
He looked down at the sleeping female next to him. His undead heart melted at the sight of her. She was so trusting, so loving, and so sweet. They had spent the previous evening making love as two mortal lovers might, with tenderness and love. Not savage and cruel like vampires did. But he was a vampire, wild, intense and untamable but at the same time very loving. It was sunset and he had woken up just as he had since he became a vampire at the same time when the sun sank down over the horizon. He purred contentedly just lying there stroking her soft brown hair. It had red and gold highlights in it he noticed just before she began to stir.
Annie stretched and felt Spike's familiar touch on her hair. She looked up into his golden eyes for he was in his vampiric visage as he so often was when around her and no one else. She heard his soft purring and smiled rubbing against him seductively.
"Annie..." He groaned softly.
"Hmm?" She pushed him onto his back and straddled him.
"I love you..." He was already hard, funny how little it took for him to become aroused around her.
"And I love you..." She moaned as his fingers found her clit and began to stroke it softly. "Spike...Spike..." She chanted his name as an orgasm built up inside of her.
"You like that?" He asked sitting up and capturing her lips in a fierce kiss.
"Oh yeah..." She murmured when he released her lips. She came hard, then kissed him and slid down his body trailing fiery kisses down over his chest.
"Baby..." He groaned loudly as she took him inside of her mouth and began to move up and down. She sucked him and playfully bit him until he was moaning and writhing on the bed.
"Oh God..." He repeated to himself, digging his fingers into the sheets. He was gonna cum soon so he gently lifted her up.
"Why did you stop me?" She pouted.
"Cause any more of that and I'm gonna explode. Besides," he murmured softly as she straddled him again, "I wanna cum inside you..."
"I think that could be arranged." She said huskily. She went down on him eliciting a groan from both of them. She began to move slowly, teasing him.
"Annie...Don't play with me..." He growled.
"Aww but it's so much fun to play with you Spikey." She smiled then went down on him hard.
"JESUS!" He exclaimed. He was not expecting that at all! Annie began to move fast and hard. "Oh man... Ride me girl...Oh yeah that’s it..." He hissed. She was nearly there and he wasn't that far off. His hands gripped her hips and he ground his up to meet hers.
"SPIKE!" She cried out his name as she came. He slammed up into her one more time then came himself.
She collapsed against him exhausted and happy. His arms wrapped around her and they relaxed in each other’s arms.
"SPIKE!!" A familiar voice shouted from outside of their window. "ANNIE!!"
"Oh no..." Annie groaned not wanting to get off Spike.
"Come on babe." Spike gently lifted her off him and lay her on the bed beside him then got up. She rolled over and muttered something about not getting up. He swatted her ass playfully and was answered by a bad tempered snarl. "Up now pet!" He chuckled and sauntered over to the window.
"Bugger off." She replied and hid underneath a pillow. Spike grinned at her, opened the curtains and looked down at Angel.
"Hiya mate! What's up?"
"We got some work to do tonight. Can I come up?" Angel asked.
"Yeah you got the key?"
"Yep, I'll see you in a minute." Angel disappeared towards the door.
Spike pulled on some boxers and sat in a chair opposite the bed. Angel came in and raised an eyebrow inquisitively at the sight of Annie hiding under a pillow.
"She refuses to get up." Spike explained.
"You've not been out all day." She spat still hiding.
"You know we work at night, kinda comes with being a vamp Annie." Angel laughed finding this very amusing.
"Very funny."
"I'm a funny guy."
"Would you still be as funny if I staked you?" She growled sitting up.
"Temper, temper ducks." Spike laughed. Annie responded by throwing two pillows at the vampires. "HEY!" Spike yelled as he got knocked off the chair by the pillow. Angel was on the floor as well because the pillow had knocked him over.
"That's where I like you guys. On the floor like ickle puppy dogs." She smirked.
"Did you hear that mate?" Spike looked at Angel.
"Yes, you know what that means?"
"Tickle time."
"NO!" Annie tried to scramble off the bed but the two vampires stopped her and began to tickle her. "No, no, NO!" She laughed squirming against the two.
"Ok, ok we'll stop." Angel laughed. "We got work to do." Becoming more somber now he sat back. "We gotta go and kill some demon, up for a laugh?"
"Sure got nowt else to do." Spike shrugged.
"The pair of you out now." Annie said.
"Umm why?" Angel asked.
"Cause I wanna get dressed!" She said pushing the two vampires off the bed.
The vampires left her to get dressed. Selecting a short red leather skirt and a daring black top which had an oriental style dragon on it she got dressed. Pulling on her trademark black boots she got a strange feeling about this demon. Something bad was going to happen but the problem was that she didn't know what was going to happen.
"Annie have you finished yet?" An impatient Spike asked. He was still wearing his boxers and found it amusing that she had forgotten. "Cause if you have I'd appreciate you letting me in to get some clothes!"
"Yeah sorry Spike! Come in." She zipped up her right boot and stood gracefully.
"Wow..." He murmured kissing her.
"Spike we've got some stuff to do tonight." She murmured in protest not exactly wanting him to stop but knowing that he had to.
"I know." He watched her leave the room and frowned. Annie was never usually that distracted. ^^I hope it's nothing serious. ^^ He mused getting dressed.
Part 2- big demonic trouble
Natasha knew that if she caused enough trouble her daughter would come running to stop her. Of course her daughter didn't know that she was her mother. She had been raised in a quaint little British town and knew nothing about the fact that she was adopted. ^^Oh well, she'll know by tonight’s end. ^^ She thought and chuckled evilly. She was going to expose this girl to the truly demonic person she was.
"Is everything ready?" She asked a nearby vampire that served her just as many did.
"We wait for your command." He replied.
"Good."
Angel and Spike watched a very distracted demon walk the streets of L.A with them.
"Annie?" Angel touched her shoulder and was rewarded with a punch in the face. "CHRIST! What did I do?" He was surprised that she had hit him.
"Oh Angel! I'm so sorry!!" She was lost in thought and hadn't realized that it was him who had touched her. "I didn't realize it was you!"
"It's ok take it easy Annie. I doubt it will hurt for much longer. What's up?"
"I just have a weird feeling about tonight that's all."
"Whenever you get 'weird feelings' Annie it usually means something." Spike said then his attention was drawn to a low growl that came from in front of them. "Playtime guys?"
"Playtime." The other two agreed then went into full Slayer mode. Somehow Annie got separated from Spike and Angel.
Natasha saw this and gestured for another group of vampires to distract Angel and Spike while she spoke to Annie.
"Demon..." She purred.
"Huh? Oh so you're the big bad person we need to make go poof?"
"You don't know who I am do you? Did you not ever wonder child, why you never really felt that you belonged to your family? Or why you had different abilities? Like you loved music and yet no one else did? Or how your hair has these gold and red highlights and no one else had?"
"I..." She couldn't answer. She had felt all of these things, she hadn't belonged at all. Then she realized with horror that Natasha had the same red and gold streaks in her brown hair. "You...?"
"Yes child, say hello to your Mother." She laughed evilly. Annie screamed and ran. Angel and Spike saw the demon run past them and after dusting the last of the vamps ran after her.
Part three.
"No, no...It's not true." She murmured over and over. Spike and Angel had finally caught up with her and wondered what wasn't true.
"Annie?" Spike touched her shoulder but she pushed him away roughly.
"DON'T TOUCH ME!" She yelled.
"I'm sorry...Annie what's wrong?" Spike asked hurt flashing in his blue eyes.
"Well aside from the fact that the last shred of humanity that I clung to for dear life has been snatched away from me, nothing." She sobbed into her hands, which covered her face.
"Annie, you're not making any sense." Angel said gently.
"My family. That's just it, They're not my family! That demon, she's my mother."
"Oh god..." It all made horrible sense to Spike. No wonder she had ran screaming.
"I've gotta go." She muttered wiping tears from her face.
"Go where?" Angel asked.
"Away from here." Then turned disappearing into the night.
"Perhaps she'll go back to Sunnydale?" Spike asked after she had gone.
"Perhaps. We'll leave for Sunnydale tomorrow night." Angel took off back to his apartment and Spike reluctantly returned to his and Annie's apartment. But Annie didn't go back to Sunnydale. She was attacked as she walked the streets and taken to Natasha's apartment.
Annie woke up in the cell. Her whole body burned with pain as memories of the attack returned to her. But something else was happening. Something she could do nothing to prevent. Her soul was being agonizingly torn from her. Then after the pain had stopped a very evil demon lay there in the cell. Natasha came down and stroked her hair.
"Annie?"
"Yes mother?" She purred and lay her head in her mother’s lap.
"My daughter..." She said her voice full of pride for the evil being that lay before her. "We are to be very busy my child. We have to destroy the Slayer, those vampires that were with you before you returned to me and every good being on this earth. Oh and Sunnydale needs to go as well."
"Sounds like fun." She smiled. "When do we start? Oh and one more thing?"
"What's that?"
"I want to play with Angel and Spike before we kill them."
"Alright, I think we can manage that. They return to Sunnydale tomorrow night child."
"Well we follow them don't we?" She grinned.
"Come on I have a room prepared for you."
Part 4-In Sunnydale the night after
Joanne paced the library agitated and worried. The soul link had been broken and there was only one way to end that. By taking the soul away from that person who shared the link. Annie's soul had been taken so they had a female version of Angelus that was going to come and party on the hell mouth. Giles entered and noticed Joanne's state.
"Joanne?"
"Giles! We have a problem."
"We do? What?"
"Annie has lost her soul or rather it's been taken away from her so we have a HUGE problem wouldn't you agree?"
"Yes." He looked up startled as Angel and Spike burst in.
"Is Annie here?" Spike asked anxiously.
"She's not with you?!"
"I take it that's a no." Angel said watching Spike's expression turn from worry to fear. He was scared that Annie was dead or that she had left him. Spike didn't deal with heartbreak well.
"Jo?" Faye walked in with Oz. "What's with Annie?" She to had felt the link end.
"Soulless." Jo answered.
"Uh-oh, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that's bad." Oz said.
"Duh." Jo muttered sarcastically.
"Now, now Joey sarcasm doesn't become you." Came a soft familiar voice from the doorway.
Annie had found them with little difficulty. Strange how no demon had ever staged an attack here, well except the master and he was weak. The others looked around in astonishment. Annie stood there as bold as brass just glaring at them.
"Annie!" Spike went to hug her but he decided not to from the hateful glare he had received. "Annie?"
"Oh shut up Spike. I've had enough of your pitiful whining."
"That was uncalled for Annie." Angel said.
"Oh it was huh? Look soul-boy I've had enough of you and your weaknesses as well." She looked at the others and smiled. Not her usual friendly smile but one of pure evil. She noticed that Buffy wasn't here and neither were any of the others. "OK boys fun time." She turned on her heel and several big demons burst in. Angel and Spike were dragged off struggling. Faye and Oz were taken as well. Giles and Joanne received a harsh beating but were left to carry a message to the Slayer. "Tell Buffy she's next." Annie said before Jo and Giles lost consciousness.
Part 5-Buffy finds out Annie's gone haywire.
Buffy walked in chatting to Willow, Xander and Cordy then stopped dead. A low groan of pain came from Giles, Joanne hadn't regained consciousness yet.
"Giles!!" Buffy ran over to him.
"Ow, ow don't shout!" Giles muttered and stood. Xander went over to Joanne and gently lifted her up onto the table.
"What happened?" Buffy asked.
"That's disgusting." Cordy muttered having just stepped in a pool of blood.
"Annie has had her soul taken from her. She and a group of large demons came here and took the others."
"Someone get the number of the bus that ran me over..." Joanne murmured deliriously.
"What others?" Buffy asked as Xander tended to Joanne’s injures.
"Angel, Spike, Faye and Oz."
"Shit, Shit, SHIT!" Buffy slammed her fist into the counter in a rage.
"OW!!" Joanne exclaimed as Buffy yelled.
"Sorry, we need to find them and kill her." Buffy muttered moving towards the weapons cupboard.
"Kill Annie?!" Joanne couldn't believe her ears.
"Yes and that demon." Buffy replied.
"NO! Annie is not going to die." Willow said reasonably calmly. "I have the soul spell and will cast it as soon as Annie shows herself again. The demon will be killed but no one else Buffy. Do you understand?"
"Um..." Buffy was taken aback at the commanding5 tone Willow used.
"Willow is right and that is how it will be done." Giles said. And so it was.
Part 6- Meanwhile back at Natasha’s lair.
Angel and Spike found themselves chained up in a painful manner to a cold wet wall in a cell. Faye and Oz hadn't fared much better, they were pretty much in the same situation in a different cell.
"Spike?"
"Yeah Angel?"
"What's gonna happen now?" Angel asked trying in vain to break the magically enhanced chains that bound him.
"Now I have a little fun." Annie replied walking into the cell.
"Fun?" Spike asked tentatively.
"Yes..." And with that she proceeded to viciously rape the two men.
Faye and Oz heard the pained screams of the vampires.
"This is really bad isn't it?" Oz asked.
"No shit sherlock." Faye replied sarcastically then relented as she saw Oz's hurt expression. "I'm sorry Oz I'm just a little freaked that’s all."
"It's ok we just need to get out of here." Oz picked up the magical scent that hung around the changes and an idea formed in his head. "Faye go into your demon form and melt these chains."
"Huh? Oh right..." She did exactly that and the chains melted freeing her. Once free she went over to Oz and freed him.
"Now between the two of us we should be able to break this door down." And although Oz dislocated his shoulder they managed to get the door down and ran back to the library. They remained there while the others returned to Natasha's lair.
Angel and Spike groaned in complete agony. Their bodies were racked with pain and soaked in blood.
"Jesus...That was not good..." Angel muttered.
"She was so harsh, so...not Annie!" Spike replied his heart breaking.
"Take it easy Spike, the others will get her back."
"But what if they can't what if-" He stopped. The door of the cell was broken down and Willow, Buffy, Giles and Joanne entered.
"Oh great now they come." Angel growled.
"What happened to you guys?" Giles asked not really embarrassed by the vampire’s lack of clothes unlike the other girls.
"Annie." Spike answered.
"Ah, Willow I need you to release them." Giles looked at the blushing girl.
"Um...Yes, sure." She cast a rapid spell that freed the vampires.
"Oh fuck." Spike hissed as his legs gave way and he collapsed.
"Spike are you ok?" Buffy asked not moving towards the naked man.
"Oh fine I usually lie on the floor covered in blood when I'm fine." He snarled and got dressed. Angel did the same, both vampires were in their vampiric visage and were in a really bad mood.
"Guys we have some stuff to do." Joanne muttered then turned and walked with Buffy towards Natasha's main chamber.
Part 7- in the room of Natasha
Annie was lounging idly on Natasha's throne. Her mother was preparing a spell and had thrown various different ingredients in a crystal chalice. Soft chanting came from her lips and Annie yawned slightly. Her mother stopped.
"My child, are you bored?"
"Yes."
"What have you been doing all evening?"
"Playing."
"With the vampires?" She asked returning her gaze to the chalice before her.
"Yes. You realize the slayer approaches?"
"I know. Should be interesting shouldn't it?"
"Yes."
Willow rapidly cast the soul spell although she didn't know whether it would work or not.
"Is it done?" Buffy asked standing outside Natasha's main room.
"Yes."
"Has it worked?" Spike wanted to know. She was his love, his mate, and his equal.
"I don't know, we'll find out soon though." Willow answered as Buffy entered the door.
"I guess we will." Angel muttered and followed Buffy with the others close behind.
Yawning the demon looked up at her friends. The spell had worked and yet she had to make them and Natasha believe that it hadn't. She looked into the ice blue eyes of the man she loved and saw pain and something else in them. Perhaps hatred? Hatred for what she had done to him and his Sire? No time for that now though. She closed her mind and her heart and concentrated on what was to be done.
"Mother dearest, may I play?" She asked walking towards the group.
"All right my dear, but don't be too long now."
"I won't, this will be over soon."
"Annie we're your friends!" Jo cried out.
"You were once my friends...Not now..." She stopped and turned in a roundhouse kick that knocked the chalice to the floor. It smashed and Natasha went up in flames. "I've done too many things for you to be my friends now."
"What about your father child?" Natasha screamed as she began to die. "You don't know who he is! I shall tell you though! That damned watcher. Giles!" Laughing hysterically she died leaving a very shocked demon.
"You... You're my father?!" She couldn't believe what she had heard.
"Yes." Giles replied. He didn't know what to say to her to make the pain of being lied to go away.
"Why didn't you tell me?" She murmured softly, all strength draining from her form she sat down on the floor her head in her hands.
"I couldn't, Annie I'm so sorry." Tears had begun to stream down his face. "Do you hate me?"
"No..." She shook her head a sad smile resting on her lips. "I'm just sorry I had to find out like this. I'm going to leave Sunnydale. I can't stay here after all this." She muttered gesturing to Angel and Spike.
Spike watched the only person he had ever loved crumple before his eyes. She was going to leave and that was something he could never allow.
"Annie no."
"No?" She looked up confused.
"No, I'm not going to let you leave." He walked over and knelt beside her purring. "Never."
"He's right you know." Angel said kneeling at the other side of her. "You're stuck with us now." He ginned.
"But what I did to you..."
"Is forgivable, I love you so much. Too much to let you go now." Spike murmured stroking her hair.
"Besides G-man will never get to know his daughter if you leave now." Jo added walking over to them and hugging her friend.
"So I have no choice huh?" Annie smiled.
"Nope!" Angel laughed and was heard to be softly purring.
"Giles? I mean...Do I call you Dad now?"
"Yes!" Giles grinned and laughed as his daughter launched herself into his arms. "Always."
"Everything's sorted then?" Jo asked.
"Well except for some very pissed off vampires." Annie said disentangling herself from Giles. "Play now?"
"Yes!" Buffy grinned and they all went into Slayer mode.
Conclusion: It all turned out nice again....
Annie woke up beside Spike and smiled. He was still in his vampiric form and was fast asleep. She stroked his hair gently, her heart swelling with love. He had stood by her and forgiven her for what she had done to him. She became lost in thought so didn't realize that Spike had woken up. He caught her hand and kissed the tips of her fingers.
"Well hello there sleepy head." She smiled down at him.
"It was your fault."
"Um why?"
"For wearing me out!" He laughed as she playfully punched him. "Ow! Ow! That was mean!"
"Ooh, are you gonna teach me a lesson?" She asked mischievously.
"Or several..." He murmured as he pulled her underneath him. "I love you..."
"And I love you Spike..." She heard his purring and right before the fun started she thought of a poem she had heard the other day:
Without your love,
I want to die,
I'm incomplete.
Half a person,
Half a soul,
Never leave me,
Make me whole.
Kiss me softly,
Hold me close,
Say you love me,
Never hurt me.
Without your touch,
I'm cold and empty,
Without your love
I'm incomplete,
Half a heart.
Half a song,
Without the melody,
Without the words,
Without you,
Love can only hurt.
Don’t hurt me,
Don’t leave me,
Don’t hate me.
Just love me...
Hours later the exhausted lovers fell asleep in each other’s arms with only one sentence on their lips:
I
Love
You...
The End.